Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

The attached photos show a CP wreck that took place in Arnprior on
Sunday, September 6, 1981. The Ottawa Citizen identified the train as
No. 482, headed to Montreal from western Canada with 115 cars. Fourteen
of those cars derailed opposite the Kenwood Mills plant, right in the
middle of town. The wreck was being blamed on an overheated bearing,
according to a CP spokesman cited by the Citizen. The derailed cars
carried sides of beef, soft drinks, frozen fruit and vegetables, steel,
coal and other general merchandise.

(This
is the Valley Edition front page, note that the story also appeared on
the front page of the Capital Edition and the Final Edition. Remember
when newspapers published multiple daily editions?)

The
aerial photo comes via Bruce Chapman, but was found by Brian Hanington,
who is working on a book on the history of Arnprior. The ground-level
photo comes via the Arnprior 150th anniversary page on Facebook and was
uploaded on May 31, 2012 by Anthony Fletcher, credited to his father
Grant.

The
two photos appear to have been taken at close to the same time, based
on the location and position of the crane, which Anthony Fletcher says
is the Montreal Auxiliary but Bruce says is the Smiths Falls auxiliary.
Either way, it's at the east end of the wreck, with the Sudbury
auxiliary likely out of view at the west end.